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Blanche K Pontius 1905 - 1990

Blanche K Pontius was born on April 2, 1905 to Nelson Robert Burget and Katie Cassiah Newcomer. She married Harold C. Pontius, and had children Betty Pontius, Lawrence Pontius, Carl Dwight Pontius, Dorothy Pontius, Esther Pontius, Kenneth Pontius, Robert Pontius, Jim Pontius, Richard Pontius, and Donald Pontius. Blanche Pontius died at age 84 years old on February 21, 1990.
Blanche K Pontius
April 2, 1905
February 21, 1990
Female
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    1905

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    April 2, 1905
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  • 02/21
    1990

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    February 21, 1990
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    Blanche K Pontius lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1905, in the year that Blanche K Pontius was born, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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In 1915, she was only 10 years old when in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.
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